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Ho​-​Made

from Radio Free Brooklyn by Pete Miser

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This song is dedicated to my Grandmother who was given the name "Margaret" in the early 1900s by a well meaning school teacher who just didn't see the point in her using her real (Chinese) name.

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Not to be played with and can’t be faded / When the rhyme I write is integrated / into your headpiece I said “peace” but still was hated / Son of a native / With chinky eyes standard issue they diss you on schoolyards and won’t play with you / If you come from the wrong seed, wrong breed / Sometimes you find a strong need to assimilate the hate but wait / Years later I contemplated the stated hatred in addition to the low self esteem it generated / Never segregated but berated with racial slurs on occasion / Facin’ the fact some kids don’t like half-Asians / With due prudence I tiptoed through the affluence of my so-called peers / Dismissed my so-called fears / Also hauled tears back into my eyes when it was wiser / Anglicized my name to "Miser" some say a self conscious attempt to exempt myself from bigotry sent my way / but I say they read too much into it

"Yeah you little" "Miser" "It seems that you're a ho"

Newly nicknamed I spit game but didn’t lose the name that I was born with / Adorned with disses that came with it / If it was specific to my nature I might take the ignorance to heart and start to hate the miniscule minds that tried to ridicule mine / But individuals shine in those difficult types of times / He who writes rhymes laughs last but didn’t laugh then / Askin’ why my ass got harassed back in my younger years when numbered tears ran my facial / Didn’t think of Mom and Dad in terms of interracial / But other kids did so I hid from the informal / Lessons guessin’ them talkin’ mess was just normal / But lookin’ back puttin’ that all into perspective / Me being rejected might have been a hidden blessing / 'Cause now I get paid for the fact my flavor strayed away from them and in the end all of my ends are Ho-Made

"Yeah you little" "Miser" "It seems that you're a ho"

credits

from Radio Free Brooklyn, released January 1, 2002
(P.Ho, Big Brother Lin Drum Music, BMI)
Written, produced, engineered and mixed by Pete Miser at the Ho-House East
Scratches: Pete Miser
Intro Vocal Sample: Margaret "Grandma Yi Yi" Chinn

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